Do you know swimming!!!

Do you know swimming? After reading this definitely you would have thought what I am trying to say

I want to narrate a story which i heard from my Guru –

Once upon a time in olden days when people used to cross rivers in boats operated by humans power, there use to one person boat man someone who drives or rides in a boat, who earns a living by transporting people or cargo by boat

Daily its his job to transport people and he was happily enjoying his job without any complaint.

One day when he was taking people from one side to another side of river one person from the crowd who was a Sanskrit Pandit asked the boatman – do you know Upanisads? Boat man said “No Sir” pandit gave wicked smile and again asked do you know Vedas again the answer from Boatman was “No Sir” – Pandit laughed and told you don’t know Vedas and Upanisads, see me I am master in all, your life is useless, you are wasting your life. Boatman felt bad and he kept quite.

After some time high wind started blowing, boat started shaking, crowd got scared, many people jumped in water and started swimming towards bank to save their lives. Boatman saw pandit sitting with frightened face. Boat man asked “Panditji – Do you know swimming?”

Panditji told no I don’t know swimming – Boatman told you learned so many Veda’s and Upanisads and became master but you should have spent some time to learn basic thing like swimming which would have saved your life today.

Pandit realized this but it was very late.

Same way in our life we in the race of learning new advanced things have we thought for a second about necessity of very basic knowledge.

In today’s competitive world working hard to wards most difficult Vedas and Upanisads like Panditji and also we are teaching same things to our children.

But we should never forget there is something like swimming which is very simple and very important to our life.

What I want to express is – learning new technology as per present competitive world is very important but we should always remember that there are few things which are very simple and basic are also important in same way.

Whatever you are, whatever you know, whatever you learn Always learn few very basics simple things in life teach same to your younger generation.

Our life is comfortable with Mobile, micoroven, LPG gas, refrigerators, bikes, cars – but always learn few simple things thinking one all of these items are not working and how we will manage life – if we know these simple things we can face any difficult situation.

When you ask today’s kid how we get milk he will tell in packet, they never been thought milk comes from cow and stored in packet.

Imagine you are travelling in a flight and due to emergency you are been dropped with a parachute in a dense forest. You should know to find some food, put fire, cook food, store water, create signal like smoke to help rescue team identify us.

Always we need to learn simple things in life.